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Annals of Camden 

No. I 



I 920 



BY 

CHARLES S. BOYER 



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ANNALS OF CAMDEN 

No. I 

THE OLD HOUSES IN 
CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY 

AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE CITY HISTORY SOCIETY 
OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY 

BY 

CHARLES S. BOYER 

MAY 10, 1920 






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The site of the John Kaighn House, showing one of the Yew 
Trees brought from England in 1704 by Elizabeth Haddon 




The Cope House 



THE OLD HOUSES 



IN 



CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY 



By CHAS. S. BOYER 



In going along our streets to-day, 
we find few traces of the past. The 
days when each house had its garden 
and trucli patch and when the pro- 
fusion of pine and oak trees furnished 
shade from the blazing rays of the 
summer's sun and brolve the force of 
the winter's bleali winds are past. 
The old orchards and corn fields have 
given way to long rows of modern 
houses. 

The early Quaker population con- 
stituted a frugal people, disdaining all 
frivolous amusements, such as danc- 
ing and light music, and remained 
contented to live in their own simple 
and plain manner. Their houses, 
while comfortable and substantially 
built, never could be classed as stately, 
or elaborate. Carpets were an un- 
undesired luxury, "fresh sand being 
considered more healthful." V/hite- 
washed walls, instead of wainscoating, 
were deemed in accord with Quaker 
simplicity. 

Tlie old houses in and around 
Camden, are, therefore more note- 
worthy for their age than by reason, 
either of their being the scenes of any 
elaborate social functions, or from 
their size and grandeur. There are 
still standing some of the old dwell- 
ings erected back in Colonial times. 
They form practically the only exist- 
ing connecting link between the days 
when Camden was but a ferry land- 
ing and the present era. Could the 
walls of these venerable structures 
speak, many facts relating to the 
period of the Revolution and Civil 
War, long since lost or forgotten, 
would be revived. 

It is a mooted question as to 
whether the "Kaighn House,'' at the 
southeast corner of Second and Syca- 
more streets, or the "Cope House," at 



Pyne Poynte is the oldest house still 
standing in the City of Camden. 
Tradition, however, gives preference 
to the one built by John Kaighn, 
shortly after he purchased the land 
at Kaighn's Point from Robert Turner 
in 1696. This house, modeled after an 
English farm house, was built of 
bricks said to have been brought from 
England, but it is now so greatly 
changed that its builder would not 
recognize a single landmark. The 
beautiful vista of Penn's newly created 
city on the opposite shore is obstructed 
by intervening buildings; the fine 
hedge-bounden walk from the front 
veranda to the river's edge is no 
longer in evidence; no boat is pulled 
out on the shore waiting to be pushed 
into the water and carry its precious 
burden "to town''; strange looking 
and closely built-together houses sur- 
round and occupy what was at one 
time the spacious farm and garden. 
The house itself has been remodeled 
into tv/o three-story dwellings, in 
place of a center building, two stories 
and an attic in height with its one- 
story stone wings on either side. 
Even the two box trees and two yew 
trees, which Elizabeth Haddon, on her 
return from England in 1704, brought 
to John Kaighn, and which he so care- 
fully planted and nurtured, have dis- 
appeared, except for the stump of one 
of the yew trees. 

On the death of Joseph Kaighn, the 
first settler, in 1749, the property 
passed to his grandson, James. The 
latter died in 1811, and by his will 
this house came to Mrs. Hutchinson, a 
great granddaughter, who in 1864 sold 
it to Charles McAllister. By the lat- 
ter it was altered into substantially 
its present appearance. 



The old "Cope House," at the head 
of Seventh street, now used by the 
Pyne Poynte Library, was probably 
built by Joseph Cooper (b. 1666 d. 
1731), the son of William Cooper. In 
1709, Joseph secured from his father 
a tract of land at the mouth of 
Cooper's Creek and "the house in 
which he liveth," indicating that the 
house in question had been erected 
prior to 1709. The older portion of 
the house is built of native stone, one 
story and an attic in height and 
measures twenty-four feet in width 
and forty-six feet in length. With 
its overshot roof and low ceilings, in 
which the heavy oak beams that 
formed the basis for the attic floor 
are plainly visible, the entire effect 
is more that of Dutch than English 
civilization. , 

As originally finished it contained 
two rooms on the first floor and two 
in the attic. One of the original fire 
places and its iron crane are still in 
use. At a later date, a two and one- 
half story brick addition was added to 
the end along the river, but just when 
this was erected history does not re- 
veal. This addition measures twenty- 
four feet along the front and thirty- 
three feet in depth. Along the side 
towards the river, the "header" bricks 
are all black. The three-story addi- 
tion to the west is of much later con- 



struction and mars the original quaint 
appearance of the two older structures. 

The farm on which this building 
was erected descended to Isaac Cooper, 
son of Joseph, and from him through 
Marmaduke Cooper, son of Isaac, to 
Israel and Margaret Cope. Through 
the marriage of Marmaduke C. Cope 
to Sarah Wistar, part of the property 
has come to the Wood family.* A por- 
tion of the old "Cope Farm" was pur- 
chased for a public park by the City 
of Camden in 1913, it having been 
practically used by the city for this 
purpose for a number of years, under 
lease from the Pyne Poynte Library 
Company. 

Standing close to the entrance from 
Kaighn's avenue into Park Boulevard 
is a substantial brick farm house, 
whose walls proclaim in large figures 
that the older portion was erected in 
1726. This part of the building was 
erected by Joseph and Mary (Hud- 
son) Cooper, as is shown by the let- 
tering in the gable on the north end, 
reading as follows J C M. In 1788, 

1726 
Marmaduke and his wife Mary 
(Jones) Cooper added the southern 
section of the building, and on the 

C 
south gable is the inscription M M 

1788. 
An inspection of the house shows 



• Isaac Cooper, son of Joseph and Lydia (Uiggs) Cooper, and grandson of William, the 
emigrant, married Hannah Coates in 1725. Isaac inherited under his father's will the home- 
stead at the Point and the adjoining lands, as conveyed in 170S by William Cooper to his 
son Joseph, and also all of the lands south of Line street purchased by Joseph from John 
Colley and Joseph Cole. He also became the owner of the 423 acre Carpenter tract purchased 
by Joseph Cooper in 1695. Isaac and Hannah Cooper had six children as follows: 
I. Lydia, married Samuel Noble. 

II. Mary, married James West. 

III. Hannah, married Charles West. 

IV. Marmaduke, married Mary Jones. 
V. Elizabeth, married Aquilla Jones. 

VI. Joseph, died a minor. 

Marmaduke and Mary (Jones) Cooper had children: 

1. Hannah, died unmarried. 

2. Mary, died in infancy. 

3. Margaret, married Israel Cope. 

4. Lydia, died unmarried. 

5. Elizabeth, died unmarried 

6. Isaac, died unmarried. 

7. Ann, died unmarried. 
S. Joseph, died young. 

Israel and Margaret (Cooper) Cope had children: 

(a) Mary Ann, married Stephen P. Morris. 

(b> Marmaduke C, married Sarah Wister. 

(c) Emeline, died unmarried. 

^d) Elizabeth C, married William M. Collins. 

William M. and Elizabeth C. (Cope) Collins had children: 

I. Mary Ann. 
II. Lydia C, married John B. Wood. 

III. Margaret M., married Edward Wistar. 




The Yellow House, built in 1734 




Joseph Kaicjhn House, or South Ferry Hotel, built about 1770 
(Courtesy of Mr. H. M. Cooper) 



where the addition was made, and 
this is further confirmed by the 
shape of the cellar windows in the 
two portions. 

The farm on which this house 
stands was formerly owned by Joseph 
Cooper, Jr. (grandson of William and 
Margaret, the first settlers at Cooper's 
Point, and son of Joseph Cooper, of 
Newton Township). The latter was 
in his day one of the most prominent 
men of Gloucester County. He was a 
member of the Legislature and a judge 
of the County Courts. The plantation 
passed to Isaac Cooper, the youngest 
brother of Joseph, and was long 
known as the "Isaac Cooper Farm." 
The farm passed from Isaac to his 
son, Marmaduke, in 1765, and was 
held by him until 1795. Marmaduke 
Cooper being a strict Friend, followed 
the tenets of that faith and ab- 
stained from participation in the 
struggle of the colonies against Great 
Britain. He did not take the oath of 
allegiance and fidelity to the State 
until 1783. 

The "Old Yellow House," now stand- 
ing near Point and Erie streets, was 
erected by Benjamin Cooper, in 1734, 
upon a tract of land which had been 
conveyed to him along with the ferry 
by his father, the first Joseph Cooper, 
in 1728. The house has the following 

C 
inscription on the gable, B H stand- 

1734, 
ing for Benjamin Cooper and his 
second wife, Hannah Carlisle Cooper. 
It is built of stone, two stories and 
an attic in height with an L exten- 
sion of brick and stone and contained 
originally fifteen rooms. The dimen- 
sions of the main structure are twenty- 
four by forty-five feet, while the L 
extension is twenty-four by twenty- 
seven feet. On the west and river 
sides there was a wide porch, which 
has long since disappeared. 

Upon the death of Benjamin, it be- 
came the residence of his eldest son, 
Joseph, by whom it was occupied at 
the beginning of the Revolution. At 
that time the house was surrounded 
by a garden of considerable extent and 
planted with rare varieties of shrub- 
bery and trees. 

It owes much of its historical im- 
portance to the fact that during the 



Revolution it served part of the time 
as the headquarters of Lieutenant Col- 
onel Abercromby, who was in com- 
mand of the British out-post in New 
Jersey, guarding the approach to 
Philadelphia. The quarters of the 
Forty-third Regiment, Colonel Shaw, 
and of several Highland and Hessian 
regiments were at the Middle Ferry, 
later known as English's. The Brit- 
ish lines reached from the Point down 
the Delaware nearly to Market street 
—thence up to the site of the present 
Genge School (Sixth and Market 
streets) and thence about northeast 
across to Cooper's Creek. 

In later years the old house was 
used as a saloon and became notorious 
under the style "The Old Stone Jug." 
A few years ago the building, stand- 
ing within the yard enclosure of the 
John H. Mathis Co., was converted 
into an office of their shipyard. 

The stately old house which former- 
ly stood at the southeast corner of 
Kaighn's avenue and Front street, 
known as the "Ferry House," or 
"South Ferry Hotel," and which burn- 
ed down in 1887, was erected about 
1770 by Joseph Kaighn, a grandson of 
the first settler, and occupied by him 
until his death in 1797, when his son 
Joseph moved into it.* Having estab- 
lished a ferry at Kaighn's Point, 
Joseph built a new home on Kaighn 
avenue above Second street and turn- 
ed the old homestead into a ferry hotel 
under the management of Chris- 
topher Medara. The house, however, 
remained in the Kaighn family until 
1821 and after Medara gave it up was 
conducted by George W. Hugg. In 
the latter year it was purchased from 
the executors of Joseph Kaighn, by 
Sarah, the widow of Clement Reeves, 
who held title until 1828, when it was 
sold by Israel and Joseph Reeves, the 
sons of Sarah Reevels, to Ebenezer 
Toole, under whose proprietorship the 
hotel became a famous rendezvous for 
Philadelphians. In 1852, it became 
the property of the South Camden 
Ferry Company and finally passed to 
the Kaighn's Point Ferry Company. 
It was conducted as a hotel by Alfred 
Haines in 1860, by Hewlings Haines 
in 1865, and later successively by J. 
Bakely, S. S. Norcross, Daniel Wills 
and John Bamford. 



* Mr. H. M. Cooper informed the writer that this house was called by Joseph Kaighn 
"Prospect Lodge". 



The building was L-shaped, one half 
facing on Kaighn avenue, originally 
called Market street, and the other on 
Front street. It was built of brick, 
two stories and a half in height, and 
contained eleven rooms on the second 
floor. 

The old frame house, still standing 
off of Chestnut street west of Haddon 
avenue, and now known as 1173 Chest- 
nut street, was erected by Joseph 
Kaighn, the grandson of the first set- 
tler of that name, about 1795. To this 
house he moved with his bride, Sarah 
Mickle Kaighn, and lived until 1797 
when they took up their residence at 
the "Ferry House." When Richard 
Jordan, a prominent minister among 
the Friends of West Jersey, came to 
the Newton Meeting he occupied this 
as his home and lived there during 
the sixteen years of his residence in 
Newton Township. It is from its as- 
sociation with Richard Jordan that 
the house is particularly noteworthy. 
Mickle, in his "Reminiscences," p. 53, 
says that "an excellent drawing of it 
was made some years ago, by Mr. 
Mason. This was engraved and after- 
wards sent to China, where it was 
copied on tea setts, and other articles 
of Chinaware. The picture may now 
be met with at public tables, in barber 
shops, and in crockery stores from 
one end of the Union to the other." 

Daniel Cooper in 1764 erected a 
large brick house, which stood about 
one hundred feet east of the northeast 
corner of Front and Federal streets, 
v/here he resided until his death, in 
1776. On its gable was inscribed the 

C 
initials D M standing for Daniel 

1764, 
and Mary (West) Cooper. The wing 
on Federal street was built at a later 
day, probably by John, or Samuel 
Wessel. 

This was considered a most desir- 
able house, facing as it did on the 
river and affording a fine view of the 
opposite shore, with its activities and 
the homes of many prominent people 
in the city of Philadelphia. In 1792, 
it was connected with the main road 
to Burlington by a road, which, in 
1803, was named by Joshua Cooper, 
Federal street. 

On the death of Daniel Cooper the 
property passed to his son Joshua, 
and sometime prior to 1820 it came 



into the possession of John Wessel, 
who conducted the ferry attached, 
while the ferry hotel, into which the 
old Daniel Cooper house had been con- 
verted, was kept by Richard Thorne 
(1803-1811), Samuel Cake (1811-1825), 
Isaac Toy (1825-1838), John Knisell 
(1838-1841), R. C. Cake (1841-1850), 
John Woolston (1850-1854), Richard 
Woolston and Stephen Parsons (1854- 
1857), Parsons & Smith (1857-1863), 
Stephen Parsons (1863-1882). John 
Wessel conveyed both the ferry and 
hotel to his son. Samuel D. Wessel, 
who, in 1826. offered them for sale, 
stating that the property to be in- 
cluded in the sale "consisted of a 
large three story brick dwelling and 
ferry house, a convenient two story 
back building and kitchen, together 
with a large garden, pleasure yard, 
stable and outbuildings." 

The advertisement evidently did not 
find any purchasers, for the property 
remained in Wessel s hand until 
1832, when Jacob Ridgeway became 
the owner. In 1838, the Camden and 
Philadelphia Steamboat Feri-y Com- 
pany, in order to crush out competi- 
tion in the ferry business, purchased 
all of Ridgeway's holdings, including 
the hotel. The old building was fin- 
ally torn down in 1883. 

In the early days it was a common 
sight to see the peculiar Jersey char- 
coal wagons standing in line at the 
Federal Street Ferry waiting to cross 
to Philadelphia. This buisiness was 
then quite an extensive one and the 
Federal Street Ferry was the head- 
quarters for these tradesmen. 

Most of the activities of the little 
settlement in the early part of the 
nineteenth century centered around 
the "ferries" and especially around 
this hotel during the period when it 
was conducted by Isaac Toy. In a 
building adjacent to the hotel Samuel 
D. Southard and J. H. Sloan opened a 
law oflice on October 22, 1832. This 
partnership lasted until 1834, when 
Sloan retired and Abraham Browning, 
Jr., who later became influential in 
city affairs and one of the leading law- 
yers in the State, became associated 
with Southard. 

Colonel "Davy" Crockett, the famous 
frontiersman, hunter, soldier and poli- 
tician and the author of the expres- 
sion "Be sui-e you are right, then go 
ahead," visited Philadelphia in 1834, 




The Daniel Cooper House, built in 1764, better known as Parson's Hotel 




The Samuel Cooper House, built In 1770, later known as Cooper's Point Hotel 




The Joseph Cooper House, built in 1788, also called The "Ice House" 



and was received as a "conquering 
hero." During his visit, he was in- 
duced to come to Camden, where, on 
the grounds adjacent to Toy's Hotel, 
he gave an exhibition of his skill as 
a rifle shot. In the large crowd which 
followed him everywhere on his trip, 
pickpockets found fertile soil to ply 
their nefarious occupation, and on this 
particular occasion Crockett himself 
was among the victims to the extent 
of one hundred and sixty dollars. 

The "Cooper's Point Hotel," or 
"Archer's Hotel," which stood on State 
street near Delaware avenue, was 
built in 1770 by Samuel Cooper. The 
initials which were set In the south 

C 
gable, S P standing for Samuel 

1770, 
and Prudence (Brown) Cooper, give 
authentic data as to the origin of 
this building. This was the second 
ferry house erected at the Point. It 
had two stories and an attic with 
dormer windows, built in red and 
black bricks and had a frontage of 
sixty-three feet on State street, with 
an L extension on the side next the 
river, making the entire length sev- 
enty-five feet. There were twenty- 
four large rooms in the mansion. 

Samuel was a staunch Whig and a 
target for those of his neighbors who 
were anxious to gain favor with the 
newcomers. He was interested with 
John Litle, of New Mills (Pember- 
ton), in a Salt works at Egg Harbor 
from which the Continental Army 
drew a portion of its supply of this 
valuable article, while the latter 
(Litle) was also engaged on his own 
account in making camp kettles and 
other iron articles for the army. That 
Samuel Cooper was a man of great 
sociability, the letters to his friend 
Litle in the Pennsylvania Historical 
Society Library fully prove.* 

In one of them he writes, after hear, 
ing of Litle's ill-health. 

"I think the sight of Philadelphia 
with a few glasses of my Maderia 
and a Bowl or two of good Lemon 
Punch will do you a great deal of 
good." 

Of his adventures with the "hell- 
devils," as he calls the Hessians, Sam- 
uel writes on March 5, 1778: 



"I make no doubt you have heard 
of me and Joseph Cooper being 
taken prisoners to Haddonfield and 
there put in the guard house and 
kept one Night and two Days, 
and our Wives never knew where 
we was gone till just before we came 
home. We had 200 men with us 
the whole time. After we came 
home you would scarcely know the 
Point. I am so * * * that I 
can't write particulars, — my loss is 
great, your's is more than you will 
expect. Joseph Cooper's is more 
than both of us." 

The next few months were ones of 
hardship and anxiety. In one of his 
letters he says he is locked in his 
room, "which is the only place with 
my kitchen I have left to make use 
of, the rest being all taken by offi- 
cers." By the middle of May, 1778, 
the situation had become so desperate 
that he says: 

"I hardly expect to save my house, 
for it is threatened with fire, how- 
ever, they can't frighten me nor 
strike the least terror on me, for 
I can stand and see them cut, pull 
Down, burn and destroy all before 
them and not think more of it than 
I used to think of seeing a Shingle 
burnt. When they tell me they will 
ruin me I tell them I shall be able 
to buy one half of them in seven 
years." 

His most serious plight came as a 
result of the ownership of a fine pair 
of field glasses with which it was his 
habit to observe the movements of 
the British and report to the Amer- 
ican officers. Samuel Cooper's maid 
betrayed her master's action to her 
soldier lover (a British sergeant) who 
promptly informed his superior. Sam- 
uel Cooper was arrested for the sec- 
ond time and his offense being con- 
sidered a serious one, he was ordered 
by Colonel Simecoe taken before Gen- 
eral Howe. On the way to the Gen- 
eral's headquarters he escaped from 
the guard and secreted himself in the 
house of a friend, who interceded with 
the British commander and secured a 
imss for Samuel Cooper to go to his 
house, "to the great mortification of 
a great many of my old friends, and 
new enemies, which stood in clusters 



•J. W. Jordan, in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. X (1S86), 



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and pointed at me as I was going to 
the General's, and followed me to see 
me go to Goal, where many of them 
said I should have gone long ago." 
These Tories were bent on his de- 
struction and freely stated that they 
intended ruining him, but Samuel was 
built of sterner "stuff," and replied 
that he would be able to buy one-half 
of them in seven years. 

Among the early proprietors of the 
hotel were William Ridgeway, to 
whom a license was granted at the 
second meeting of the City Council, 
followed by Joseph Kirkbride and by 
David W. Carrall, in 1837. About 
1841, George C. Davis became pro- 
prietor and was succeeded in turn by 
John Smith, a former employee of 
Israel English, and by Richard Hor- 
ner, Clements & Horner (1858) and 
Joel Clements about 1860. About 1867 
or '68, its proprietor was Samuel 
Archer,* and to many of those living 
it is familiarly called "Archer's Hotel." 
For a number of years, after it ceased 
to be used as a hotel, the offices of 
the Camden and Atlantic Railroad 
were located in the building. It was 
torn down in 1896. 

Inn-keeping in the early days was 
an esteemed occupation, and the early 
hosts at Cooper's Ferries and Kaighn- 
ton were men of importance in the 
community. The most important in- 
stitution in the old township was the 
hotel or tavern. Many of them be- 
came prominent landmarks in both 
civic and political history. No doubt 
the first taverns around the ferries 
were crude affairs, but of these we 
can find no records, and in later years 
the substantial brick or stone hostel- 
ries, such as above described, took 
their places. They were the polling 
places and centers for political rallies, 
where the several candidates held 
forth. The scenes of life and activity 
which were daily in evidence in the 
"tavern yards," or in front of the 
hotels, were sure forerunners of 
greater things in the future. Stage 
coaches were arriving and departing 
with clock-like regularity; the bust- 
ling hostlers and busy stablemen were 
always alert to the demands of the 
new arrivals, or of the departing con- 
veyance. The curiously constructed 
charcoal wagons gave an interesting 



touch to the scene of ever-recurring 
excitement. 

The old "Pelosi House," which 
formerly stood on the south side of 
Cooper street, between Front and 
Second, was built in 1780 by Vincent 
Maria Pelosi and in its day was one 
of the finest houses in the settlement. 
Pelosi was a natiA^e of Naples, Italy, 
who at that time was engaged in busi- 
ness in Philadelphia and was reported 
to be extremely wealthy. He was one 
of the first holders of lots in the Town 
of Camden, having purchased from 
Jacob Cooper lots numbers 27 and 32, 
one of which fronted on Cooper street 
and the other directly back of it on 
Market street. Upon the north end 
of these lots he erected his house 
which faced towards Market street 
and was approached through an ex- 
tensive garden. He also purchased 
the lot at the northwest corner of 
Second and Market streets, now oc- 
cupied by the National State Bank. 

Pelosi died on September 14, 1793, 
at the age of forty-eight, a victim of 
the yellow fever epidemic then raging 
in Philadelphia, and was buried in 
the old burying ground at Fifth and 
Arch streets. Nothing more seems to 
be known of this pioneer, or his 
family, except that his widow married 
a Mr. Tiffin. In 1804, there appeared 
an advertisement in "Poulson's Ameri- 
can Daily Advertiser" announcing 
"Elegant Accommodations for Board- 
ing & Lodging, in the beautiful situa- 
tion Camden, on the Jersey shore op- 
posite Market street, Philadelphia, the 
former residence of Mr. An. Pelosi." 

The old house is clearly remembered 
by some still living as the head- 
quarters, at one time, of the Dorcas 
Society, of the Soup House Associa- 
tion, and of the House of Industry. 
In later years it was used as a school 
house, a "soup kitchen," a patent 
medicine factory and finally as a car- 
penter shop. 

Another of the older landmarks of 
the city was the house of Joseph 
Cooper at the head of North Third 
street. This house was built in 1788, 
of old English bricks, alternately red 
and white, thirty-six feet by eighteen 
feet and three stories high, or, as 
called in olden style, two stories and 
attic, with dormer windows. The 



* Samuel Archer came from Mount Ephraim where, in 1S60, he kept Archer's Hotel, at the 
corner of the Vi'oodbury road and the Mount Ephralni Pike. 




The Benjamin W. Mickle House 




The Isaac Mickle House 




The Hall House, built in 1787 




The William Ccoper, or Gaskill House, built In 1789 



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house, which contained nine rooms, 
v/as the scene of many social functions 
in the early days. In later years it 
received the name "Ice House," from 
the initials which were worked in 
black bricks in the north end of the 

C 
peak, I E standing for Joseph and 

1788, 
Elizabeth Cooper — the letter "I' being 
frequently used for a "J" in such 
places. A lean-to at the rear was of 
later construction. 

Overlooking Newton creek and east 
of the tracks of the West Jersey and 
Seashore Railroad Company stands an 
old house, now much the worse for 
wear, which was in its day the home 
of one of the wealthiest land owners 
in the lower part of the city. It 
stands on the lands of Benjamin W. 
Mickle, awarded to him in the division 
of the estate of Isaac Mickle, Senior, 
by whom it was built for his son prior 
to 1800. When erected it was just 
east of the old "Salem Road," with 
which it was connected by a lane, and 
and from the house a splendid view 
was to be had of the Delaware river 
and of the country adjacent to New- 
ton creek. In later years the farm 
surrounding the house has been known 
as the Foreman or Brewster farm. 

Captain Isaac Mickle in the early 
days lived in the old stone farm house, 
still standing on Third street, between 
Viola and Emerald streets. This 
house ante-dates the Benj. W. Mickle 
house above noted, but the exact date 
of its erection is unknown, although 
one authority gives its date as be- 
fore 1700 and 1710.* The farm extend- 
ed from Little Newton creek to New- 
ton creek, and for some distance 
east of Broadway and is now occupied 
by some of the largest industrial estab- 
lishments in the city. A frame tenant 
house, which formerly stood close to 
the river bank below Fairview street, 
was later moved, by the New York 
Shipbuilding Company, to the main 
gate of the shipyard and used as a 
time-keeper's office. These were the 
only houses on the entire tract. 

The "Hall House," which formerly 
stood in the east side of Front street, 
between Market and Arch streets was 



one of the old houses of the city. This 
house stood on lot number 24 of 
Jacob Cooper's town plot which, to- 
gether with lot number 25, Isaac 
Mickle purchased after Jacob Cooper's 
death. It was built, in 1787, by Isaac 
Mickle, Sr., grandfather of Isaac 
Mickle, the historian, and one of the 
most influential men of his day. On 
its completion he moved from his 
farm house on Third street, between 
Viola and Emerald streets. At the 
time the "Hall House" was built it 
was directly on the river bank, and 
from its front lawn a splendid view of 
the city across the river and the island 
opposite, then merely a low mud bank, 
could be obtained. 

On the death of Isaac Mickle the 
property went to his daughter, Mary 
(Mickle) Haines, wife of Samuel 
Haines, and grandmother of S. Fred- 
erick Hall. When Mary Haines wished 
to visit her sister Rachel, wife of Dr. 
Isaac S. Mulford, the historian, who 
lived in the house that formerly stood 
on the site of the present banking 
house of the Camden Safe Deposit and 
Trust Company, she simply walked 
across the fields between the two 
houses, there being no intervening 
buildings. 

The property finally passing to Sarah 
Mickle Hall was sold by her estate 
in January, 1907, and torn down the 
following May to provide a site for 
one of the buildings of the Joseph 
Campbell Company. The doorway in 
this house was a beautiful example of 
Colonial architecture. 

The "William Cooper House" stood 
near the northeast corner of the 
present State street and Delaware ave- 
nue, and was built in 1789.t As origin- 
ally built the house was a two-story 
brick structure with dormer windows 
and a hip roof. In 1860 the old attic 
roof was replaced by a French roof 
and the wing on the western end 
added. It was torn down in 1913. 

When William Cooper, son of 
Benjamin and Elizabeth (Cole) Cooper, 
had leased the ferry and ferry-house 
at Cooper's Point, he moved into this 
house and lived there until his death, 
September 27, 1849. William Cooper, 
who married Rebecca Wills, was a 



*Ho\vard M. Cooper, "Historical Sketches", p. 60. 

t This house must not be confounded with the house which William Cooper, the original 
settler, erected on the Delaware liiver bank, at the head of Fifth street. The remains of 
the latter house were visible as late as 1840, but all traces of it are now obliterated by the 
encroachments of the river at this point. 



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highly respected and very popular 
citizen, and during the time he 
operated the ferry at Cooper's Point 
was familiarly called "Uncle Billy" 
and his wife "Aunt Becky." He was 
recognized as the head of all move- 
ments of the ferrymasters on both 
sides of the river. 

After William Cooper's death the 
house was occupied by his daughters, 
Mrs. Sarah C. Gaskill, widow of 
Charles C. Gaskill, and Rachel Cooper. 
During later years the house was 
known as the "Gaskill House." It was 
continuously occupied by a member of 
the Cooper family until May, 1892. 
One of the distinctive features in con- 
nection with this house was the well 
kept and artistic garden attached. 

When Samuel Cooper decided to 
move from the ferry-house at Cooper's 
Point (known as "Cooper's Point 
Hotel") to his farm, which he called 
"Pleasant View Farm," now covered 
by a large part of the Eleventh Ward, 
he erected the spacious mansion, still 
standing, on Twenty-second street. It 
is built of bricks, which were said to 
have been brought from England, and 
is two and one-half stories in height. 
Embedded in the north end of the 
building, in light colored bricks, are 

C 
the Initials S P During the 

1793. 
ante-bellum days this was one of the 
"stations " on the line of the "Under- 
ground Railroad." In the hollow to 
the north of the railroad, betv/een the 
junction of the Trenton and Mount 
Holly branches was a favorite loca- 
tion for fugitive slaves. He died in 
this house in 1812, and during his 
latter life was very active among the 
Friends, receiving the commendation 
of the famous Quaker preacher, John 
Hunt. 

The old "Ferry House", which, until 
1883, stood on the north side of 
Cooper street, between Front and 
Point streets, was erected about 1794. 
The building was of brick, two stories 
and an attic in height, facing on the 
river with an L extending back 
towards Front street. A wide porch 
surrounded the western and southern 
frontages. To the north of the hotel 
was a grove of trees, a portion of 
which in later days was enclosed by 
a high fence. In this old building 
Richard M. Cooper kept a store in 



which quarters for the first post office 
were provided. 

When Richard M. Cooper was mar- 
ried in 1798 to Mary Cooper, daughter 
of Samuel and Prudence (Brown) 
Cooper, of Cooper's Point, he took his 
bride to the three-story rough-cast 
brick house which stood at the north- 
east corner of Front and Cooper 
streets. In later years this house was 
occupied by Henry Coy and subse- 
Quently by W. B. French, a member 
of the grocery firm of B. W. Moore 
& Co., at one time located at Third 
and Market streets. Coy, whose busi- 
ness was located in Philadelphia, was 
an eccentric individual, and there was 
a rumor that, while living in this 
house, his child died, and that he re- 
fused to permit its burial, keeping the 
body in an upper room, so that he 
could be close by. This house was 
torn down shortly after the square had 
been purchased by the city for a pub- 
lic park. The brick house just to the 
east and afterwards occupied by the 
Cooper Park Library and Red Cross 
v.as built by Richard Matlack Cooper 
sometime about 1825. and originally 
v/as only two stories in height, the 
familiar mansard roof being added at 
a much later date. This building was 
torn down in October, 1919. 

The "Mulford House," which form- 
erly stood on the south side of Fed- 
eral street midway between Second 
and Third streets, was formerly the 
residence of Joshua Cooper, the Fed- 
eralist, and was erected prior to 1803. 
The basis for this date is found in 
the fact that in that year Joshua 
named the road which, at that time, 
passed his house. Federal street. 

This property, by the will of Daniel 
Cooper, proved February 15, 1768, was 
devised to his son .Joshua. The house 
was included in the sale of 89-75/100 
acres made to Edward Sharp In 1818, 
and in 1821 was offered for sale by 
Samuel Clement and Edward Sharp, 
being described as follows: 

"A Brick House, formerly the 
residence of Joshua Cooper, contain- 
ing a large entry and ten rooms. 
This is a modern and substantial 
house, and is pleasantly situated 
about one hundred feet from the 
street, and surrounded by trees. 
The cellars are dry and a pump at 
the kitchen door. The lot is eighty 




Another Samuel Cooper House, built in 173^ 




The Sharp or Harris House, built In 1812 




The Foster House, built in 1815 




The Carman House, built in 1830 



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feet in front on the south side of 
Federal street and the same front 
on Bridge Avenue, which street is 
one hundred feet wide, and the dis- 
tance between the two is two hun- 
and eighty-six feet."* 
After several intermediate convey- 
ances the property passed to Racliel 
W. Mickle on May 28, 1828. The lat- 
ter was the wife of Dr. Isaac S. Ivlul- 
ford, the second physician to begin 
the practice of medicine in Camden, 
then a mere village, popularly known 
as "The Ferries." Dr. Mulford took 
title to the property on July 30, 1857, 
and after his death his executor and 
trustee, Charles Rhoads, conveyed it 
to the Camden Safe Deposit Insurance 
and Trust Company, July 1, 1873, by 
whom it was occupied as a banking 
house until 1892. It was finally de- 
molished in April, 1893. 

It was in this house that Dr. Mul- 
ford wrote his "Civil and Political 
History of New Jersey," a book now 
much sought after. 

On the southeast corner of Second 
and Cooper streets stands the "Sharp." 
or "Harris House," — a substantially 
built stone house, rough cast with 
what is called pebble dashing. It was 
erected in 1812 by Edward Sharp, who 
was the first one to actively agitate 
the building of a bridge between Cam- 
den and Philadelphia. The house 
stands on a lot, originally measuring 
eighty feet on Cooper street and one 
hundred and eighty feet on Queen, 
now Second street, which was laid out 
in "an excellent garden, well stocked 
with fruit trees, shrubs, etc." The 
front portion of the house is two 
stories high. A full description of the 
property is given in an advertisement 
announcing the sale of certain of Ed- 
ward Sharp's holdings in 1821, from 
which the following is quoted: 

"The main building is thirty-two 
feet on Cooper street, and forty four 
on Queen street, with well finished 
back buildings, eighteen feet in 
width by thirty-six feet in length, 
making the whole depth of the 
buildings eighty feet on Queen 
street. The whole contains thirteen 
rooms and two kitchens. There are 
on the lot an excellent stone Stable 
and Carriage House, with a stone 
Smoke House and a Pump at the 
Kitchen door."f 



This house was purchased at an 
auction sale held on August 11, 1821, 
by Dr. Samuel Harris, who was the 
first physician to locate in Camden, 
having moved here from Philadelphia 
in 1811. He was also the first to es- 
tablish a drug store in this city, which 
was kept in the back buildings of this 
house and was under the direction of 
G. Catchell. The house was sold by 
M. B. Taylor, Esq., for the Harris 
Estate in January, 1883, to John W. 
Rogers, of John Wanamaker & Co. 

To the eastward, on the south side 
of Cooper street, stood four two-story 
brick houses, in the upper one of 
which John James Audubon, the fam- 
ous naturalist, spent some time during 
the years 1829 and 1831. The site :'f 
these houses is now occupied by the 
buildings and grounds of the late Cap- 
tain John B. Adams. 

On the site of the Centenary M. E. 
Church, at the southwest corner ot 
Fifth and Cooper streets, stood a fine 
old type of Colonial house erected in 
1815 by Thomas Foster. For many 
years this was the last house on the 
street in going away from the ferry 
and it was a landmark for those com- 
ing into town, indicating to the trav- 
eler that he was approaching the 
ferry. It was surrounded by a spac- 
ious garden. In later years a green- 
house was built on the corner and 
stood there until the entire property 
was taken over by the church and 
torn down in 1891, to make room for 
the new edifice. 

At the beginning of the nineteenth 
century, all of the country east of 
Broadway was devoted either to farm- 
ing, or fruit raising, and was owned 
by the Cooper family. William Car- 
man, who married Mary, daughter of 
Daniel Cooper, came to Camden about 
1820, and in 1823 built a large brick 
house at the corner of Broadway and 
Carman street, where he resided for 
a number of years. 

Through his marriage Carman 
came into possession of considerable 
land lying between Federal and Wash- 
ington streets and from Broadway to 
Cooper's Creek. In 1830. he built the 
frame house which stood at the south- 
west corner of Broadway and Federal 
street until torn down in 1902 to pro- 
vide the site of the present store of 
Hunger & Long. He soon engaged in 



* "Poulson's Daily Advertiser," August 7, .1S21. 
t Ibid. 



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the lumber business and erected a 
large saw mill on the Delaware. River 
between Linden and Pearl streets. 
The sawmill was destroyed by fire in 
July, 1835, but was promptly rebuilt, 
only to again suffer loss from fire in 
1845. 

On the west side of Front street, 
midway between Market and Arch 
streets, stood, until 1917, a three and 
a half story brick building, erected 
between the years of 1830 and 1835, 
by Robert W. Ogden, cashier of the 
State Bank of Camden. It was In 
1835 considered one of the finest 
houses in Camden and v/as the scene 
of many social functions. In later 
years it was occupied by a saloon of 
the lower type and received the name 
"Old Sebastapole." 

"Cooper's Mansion," occupying the 
block bounded by State, Point, York 
and Front streets, is now a niere 
shadow of its former beauty. Built 
in 1853, after plans and under the di- 
rection of J. C. Hoxie, an architect 
of note in his day, it was far in ad- 
vance of any other house in the city 
and received the name "Coopers 
Folly," by many of the older residents, 
who still remembered the disaster 
which befell Robert Morris on account 
of his extravagantly planned house in 
Philadelphia. 

The building was sixty feet front, 
besides the circular additions on 
either side; one a bay window con- 
necting with the main reception room 
and the other serving as a carriage 
entrance. A wide hall through the 
center and a grand staircase gave it 
the air of gentility and grandeur. 
Surrounding the house were extensive 
lawns, planted with beautiful flowers 
and rarest shrubbery and ornamented 
with sparkling fountains. 

The house was the center of much 
social activity and many notable func- 
tions took place within its walls. For 
the past fifteen or eighteen years it 
has been closed up and is now in a 
very dilapidated condition. 

In addition to the Kaighn houses 
mentioned above, there are two others 
erected at an early date by members 



of the same family on Kaighn avenue, 
or "Market street in Kaighnton." 

As shown by the marble slab in its 
west gable. No. 224, was built in 1809, 
by Joseph Kaighn, who had, until the 
death of his father, Joseph, in 1797, 
lived in the frame house still stand- 
ing off of Chestnut street near Or- 
chard, when he moved into the old 
homestead at Front and Kaighn ave- 
nue, known as the Ferry House. On 
the death of Joseph the property pass- 
ed to his son, Charles, and was oc- 
cupied by him until 1831. For years 
the house was surrounded by spacious 
grounds, long since cut up into build- 
ing lots. 

In 1831 Joseph Kaighn built the 
house still standing at the southwest 
corner of Third street and Kaighn 
avenue, and moved from the south 
side of Kaighn avenue above Second 
street. Before his death Joseph had 
provided houses for each of his four 
children. To John M. Kaighn* he gave 
the three-story brick house formerly 
standing east of Mount Ephraim ave- 
nue below Everett street; to Charles 
the house on the south side of Kaighn 
avenue, later occupied by Thomas R. 
Arrison; to Mary, afterwards the wife 
of John Cooper, the house at the 
southeast corner of Third street and 
Kaighn avenue, above mentioned, and 
to William the house at Sixth and 
Mechanic streets, now owned by the 
West Jersey Orphanage. William at 
that time was unmarried and remain- 
ed so for some years after his father's 
death and never occupied this house. 
When he did finally marry he built 
the house on Kaighn avenue below 
Third street, later occupied, after 
being remodeled, by David B. Kaighn, 
while the house which his father had 
built for him was used by a tenant 
on his farm. 

The "Allen House," a three-story 
rough cast building, which stood at 
the northwest corner of Second and 
Kaighn avenue, was torn down in 
July, 1887, to make room for the bank 
building of the Camden National 
Bank. This house was erected by 
Benjamin Allen, who established an 



* The house which came to John M. Kaighn was originally built by Joseph Mickle and is 
the one mentioned by Howard M, Cooper in "Historical Sivetches of Camden," p. 21, at 
which the Hessians stopped on the way to Red Bank, in 1777, to get a drink of water. "Unable 
to pump water they vented their displeasure in unintelligible Dutch until Joseph Mickle's wife 
came to the pump and by the simple, familiar device of pouring water down it caused the 
buckets to draw water." 







The Joseph Mickle House, later occupied by John M. Kaighn 




S. W. Cor. Third and Federal Streets prior to 15 




The IVIarket House In Third Street, between Federal and 
Arch Streets, and the northeast corner Third and Federal 
Streets 



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extensive tannery west of Second 
street and north of Kaighn avenue, 
about the beginning of the nineteenth 
century. Allen continued the tannery 
until 1830, when Robert Smith pur- 
chased the property and converted it 
into a pottery for the manufacture of 
glazed earthenware, later taking his 
brother, George H. Smith, into part- 
nership with him. The manufacturing 
buildings were subsequently converted 
into dwellings and were long known 
as "Pottery Row." 

The Allen house, above noted, was, 
however, purchased by Ebenezer Toole 
and subsequently sold to John Cape- 
well, who with his brother, James G. 
Capewell, had in 1841-1842, established 
an extensive flint glass works located 
in the block bounded by Kaighn ave- 
nue. Second, Sycamore and Locust 
streets. Capewell added a story to 
the brick house (originally only two 
stories in height), rough cast it and 
beautified the grounds. The Capewell 
glass works was operated until the 
panic of 1857, and after a struggle 
for two years was finally closed up. 
Upon the death of John Capewell the 
old house passed into other hands and 
was used just before its demolition as 
a hotel. 

What a change time has wrought in 
the character of a neighborhood is 
well illustrated by the pictures of the 
northeast and southwest corners of 
Third and Federal streets. The origin 
of these houses is unknown, but for 
a number of years the frame building 
at the southwest corner was occupied 
by William D. Clark and later by D. 
B. Coley as a grocery store, while on 
the northeast corner stood a frame 
building, occupied successively by 
Richard J. Ward and Gifford & Stiles, 
as a grocery. The old market house 
in the center of Third street, between 
Arch and Federal streets, erected 
about 1856, gave the entire neighbor- 
hood a touch of antiquity in the light 
of succeeding improvements. 

The "Walt Whitman House," No. 330 
Mickle street, was not the original 
house, as many believe, in which Whit- 
man first lived when he moved to 
Camden. He came to this city in 
May, 1873, to see his dying mother, 
who at that time was staying with her 



son, George, at No. 322 Stevens street. 
After her death, he continued to re- 
side with his brother's family and 
moved with them in a few months to 
No. 431 Stevens street, where he re- 
mained, except for the short periods 
in 1876 and 1881-2, which he spent 
with the Stafford family at WTiite 
Horse and Glendale, until 1884. In 
the later year he moved to the little 
two-story frame house at No. 330 
Mickle street, in which he was de- 
stined to spend his remaining days. 
It was in this unostentatious little 
home that he met some of the famous 
literary men of the day, among them 
John Burroughs, Dr. Daniel G. Brin- 
ton, Francis Howard Williams, Rich- 
ard Watson Gilder and Robert G. 
IngersoU. 

It was in this house that the "Good 
Grey Poet," whom Hamlin Garlan<5 
called "our great democratic poet," 
died on March 26, 1892. His body lies 
in a beautiful mausoleum in Harleigh 
Cemetery, Camden. 

One of the greatest gatherings of 
literateurs, journalists and business 
men which has ever been held in 
Camden, and seldom equalled in any 
city under similar conditions, took 
place on May 31, 1889, on the occasion 
of a testimonial dinner tendered Walt 
Whitman on his seventieth birthday. 
Among those present were Richard 
Watson Gilder, Julian Hawthorne, 
Hamlin Garland, John Fisher Kirk, 
Harrison S. Morris, Cyrus H. K. 
Curtis, Herbert H. Gilchrist, Francis 
Howard Williams, Samuel H. Grey, 
Charles G. Garrison, Lincoln L. Eyre. 

"The Railroad Hotel,"* also known 
as "Elwell's Hotel," located at the 
foot of Bridge avenue, was a frame 
structure, erected in 1836 or 37 by the 
Camden and Amboy Railroad Com- 
pany, for the accommodation of the 
traveling public. It was turned over 
to the Camden and Philadelphia 
Steamboat Ferry Company in 1838 and 
was operated by them in conjunction 
with their ferry. The ferry company 
states in an advertisement in the 
Philadelphia Piiblic Ledger of May 3, 
1838, that it has provided "good ac- 
commodations for Man and Horse at 
their Hotel in Camden (kept by 
James Elwell)." The hotel was burn- 



* This should not be confused with the hotel erected by Joseph Weatherby at the corner 
of Second and Bridge avenue which he built shortly after the completion of the Camden and 
Amboy Railroad and named "Railroad Hotel". 



14 



ed down on April 1, 1842, but was 
immediately replaced by a four-story 
brick building which James Elwell, 
the proprietor, advertised on August 
17, 1842, was "again open for the 
reception of Boarders and Visitors." 
This hotel was the favorite ren- 
dezvous of the so-called "Camden and 
Amboy Crowd" and many of the 
political intrigues and plans of the 
early days were laid under its roof. 
It was here that a number of the 
directors of the ferry company were 
found on the night of the burning of 
the "New Jersey." In 1860 Matthew 
Miller, Jr., became proprietor, but he 
was succeeded in 1862 by James El- 
well. In later years the building was 
occupied by the railroad offices of the 
Camden and Amboy and West Jersey 
Railroads and in 1874, was torn down 
to make room for additional tracks of 
the railroad company. 

The West Jersey Hotel (now Hotel 
Ridgway) was built by the West Jer- 
sey Ferry Company in 1849. Its first 
proprietor w'as Israel English, who 
had previously conducted the hotel at 
the northwest corner of Front and 
Cooper streets. English was followed 
by John Bodine, Joel Kirkbride, 
George Campbell, George Cake, James 
Titus, John Mount, Stephen Parsons 
and others. The name was changed 
to New Camden Hotel, in 1909, and 
to Hotel Ridgway in 1912. Dui'ing 
the English regime, this hotel became 
celebrated for its excellent cuisine, and 
on account of this and its splendid 
location was frequented by many of 
the first families of Philadelphia, 
while a number of those who were 
identified with the industrial and 
political affairs of Camden made it 
their permanent residence. 

As originally constructed it had a 
veranda on a level with the second 
floor, extending along the Market 
street and Delaware avenue fronts, 
and a cupola surmounting the struc- 
ture. These were removed in Decem- 
ber, 1911, and January, 1912, re- 
spectively. 

When the building was erected and 
for many years afterwards the large 
four-sided cupola was the most con- 
spicuous object on the Camden water 
front. It towered above all the other 
buildings and stood out against the 
background of a great mass of foliage, 



trees flourishing everywhere in Cam- 
den at that time. 

The hotel was built to accommodate 
travelers by stage and railroad, in- 
cluding many journeying between 
Philadelphia and New York, and com- 
pared favorably in size, appointments 
and service with any in Philadelphia. 

The predecessor of the West Jersey 
Hotel was a two-story and one-half- 
story rough-cast stone building, which 
stood at the northwest corner of 
Front and George streets, the site now 
being occupied by a portion of the 
building of Taylor Brothers. This old 
building was erected shortly after 
Abraham Browning established the 
ferry at the foot of Market street, the 
boat landing being directly back of 
the hotel, which was also used as the 
ferry-house. It is not certain whether 
the first two or three proprietors of 
this ferry (James Springer, Peter 
Farrow, Benjamin Springer), also oc- 
cupied and conducted the hotel, but 
the records are clear regarding Wil- 
Jiam S. Paul, who, in 1830, was li- 
censed to keep the tavern and con- 
tinued in this capacity until succeeded 
by Thomas P. Clement, who was fol- 
lowed by John Knissell and Joshua 
Hollingshead. This building was aban- 
doned as a hotel upon the completion 
of the West Jersey Hotel and in its 
later years had been put to a variety 
of uses, including that of a district 
soup kitchen of the Citizens' Relief 
Association (1875) and as a paint 
shop. It was torn down about 1881. 

"California Row," the name given 
to a row of two-story frame houses 
which stood on the south side of Fed- 
eral street east of Eleventh, was de- 
molished in May and June, 1911, to 
make way for sixteen brick houses. 
William Carman, who during the Cali- 
fornia "gold craze" in the early "for- 
ties," owned the saw mill on Front 
street north of Cooper, constructed 
the frames of many houses which he 
shipped to the then New Eldorado. 
For some reason this particular lot of 
buildings was not shipped west, but 
was erected on the Federal street site 
in 1849, and continued to furnish a 
domicile for a number of families un- 
til torn down as above noted. When 
originally erected they were set a few 
feet above the ground, but owing to 
a change in the grade of the street it 




The Wait Whitman House 



became necessary to construct high 
steps to enable the occupants to reach 
the first floor. 

"Frog Row" was the name given to 
a row of old frame houses on the 
south side of Elm street west of Point 
street. This row was torn down dur- 
ing the Summer of 1912. 

Scattered throughout the city were 
other rows of frame, or brick houses, 
which were designated by names in- 
stead of by street numbers. Among 
these were the row of three-story brick 
houses on the south side of Federal 
street west of Second, long known as 
"Laning's Row"; the houses on At- 
lantic avenue above Fourth street 



called "Meadow Row," while on Broad- 
way, south of Atlantic avenue, was 
another row of houses called "Meadow 
Row." "Paper Mill Row" was the 
name given to the brick houses built 
in 1845, still standing on Twelfth 
street north of Federal; "Potter's 
Row" was on Lee's Court; "Purnell's 
Row" was on Bank street; "Stories' 
Row" was on Pine street east of Tenth 
street; "Toomb's Row" was between 
Ferry avenue and Jackson street; 
"White's Row" was in the rear of 
Evergreen Cemetery; "Winner's Row" 
was between Central avenue and Ferry 
avenue and Tenth and Eleventh 
streets. 




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